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shadowkatWas rather impressed with the Good Wife last night, you had to pay attention, it interwove all the political tales quite adeptly.
There were three interloping stories. All three focus in one way or another on Kalinda's dilemma and how she will resolve it. Kalinda is attempting to help Will Gardner deflect charges of bribery being brought against him by the State's Attorney. I'm not sure Will has told Kalinda everything. If so, I've missed it. Or they just didn't show it. What he hasn't told is that Scott-Carr is after Peter Florek. The Question is why is he hasn't revealed this? At any rate, Scott-Carr has requested that Dana foster a relationship with Kalinda and coerce Kalinda to reveal damaging intel on Will Gardner. Scott-Carr's hand has been pushed by Tosciana, who has down a superlative job
of getting under Scott-Carr's skin and throwing a monkey-wrench in her plans. So she gets a bit underhanded and asks Dana to push Kalinda - which Dana does by providing Kalinda with an ultimatum - either reveal what you've found on Will or we'll use the rider that was provided to us by the Hunt's divorce attorney and prosecute Alicia on forgery charges. (Nice touch, but I questioned it because they managed to prove it wasn't a forgery last week - so how are they able to prove it is one this week? It also made me wonder if Carey knows what Scott-Car and Dana are doing, I'm guessing not.) This poses a dilemma for Kalinda. What does she do?
The episode addresses this dilemma.
* Bitcoin for Dummies - Stack (portrayed by Jason Biggs), an attorney and decoder specialist, pops into Alicia's office requesting legal representation against the US Treasury Office. (The US Treasury as villains is not only innovative, but in some cases more apropos...they represent bureaucratic power at its best.) What ensues is an elaborate game played against both the US Treasury and Lockhart/Gardner - Stack can't reveal who the designer of Bitcoin is, because the federal offense is developing an alternative currency. It is not however a federal offense to represent the developer. The Treasury is pursuing Mr. Stack to get him to admit who his client is, which he states he can't do under attorney client privilege. Of course if he is his own client, that privilege becomes waived. Kalinda sets off to figure out who Bitcoin is...and at one point almost gets arrested herself, because the developer ghosts her computer, making it appear she did the coding. That's when she begins to piece it together. At the end...she discusses her findings with Stack.
Kalinda: "You decided to do a round-robin on the treasury. All of three of you developed Bit-Coin. You came up with the idea, Elaine came up with the Manifesto, and Nanko with the code. The treasury would go after each one of you individually, but it never occurred to them that you did it together. That Mr. Bitcoin was three people not one."
In short, he put them and Kalinda on a wild goose chase.
* Alicia's Son...who is dating Neesa. Alicia disapproves of the relationship, because she fears it will become sexual soon and too serious. Grandmom Florek disapproves for other reasons. Both express their disapproval. Making it difficult for the son to figure out where to meet his girlfriend, do it at Dad's - run into Grandmom. Do it at Mom's...And of the two places, he'd clearly prefer Mom's. So he plays the two against each other. Grandmom agrees with his mother.
And says, well, then, your Mom's right. But Mom on the other hand...he finds her weakness,
racism or classism.
"Grandmom disapproved as well, but she said it was because we had nothing in common, we were too different, different worlds - I went to Capstone and Neesa went to public school."
"She said that?" (Pause) "You can have Neesa over as much as you want."
LOL!
* Tosciana asks Will if he has any vulnerabilities. He and Kalinda tell Tosciana that he does.
His friend and bookie, the actor, who he invited to his basketball games - paid off an 8,000 gambling debt. And there is one case - with Judge Parks, that may be considered circumspect. (I have a feeling we probably saw this case and it was either during the first or second seasons. The cases in this show are important. It's work-place drama. Makes me wish I owned the DVDs or rewatched these episodes.) Tosciana looks at the file and asks if there is anything in that file that she doesn't want to know about? Anything that could really really hurt them? Kalinda says yes. Tosciana leaves - "I'm going to go now." Kalinda looks at Will. Will tells her he can't ask her to do it. She takes the file.
Later, at the very end of the episode, after she resolved the Bitcoin case (she didn't tell anyone what she discovered outside of Stack), she hands Dana the file that we saw.
And I can't help but wonder if she tampered with it first. She has an odd look on her face after talking to Stack, an ah-hah moment. And after she gives Dana the file, she has a look that can either be described as "whew" or "she bought it" or "not sure about this."
But I see a twist coming. The stories were too well juxtaposed. Also, in the court case as in the bar scene - it's made clear that Kalinda cares most about Alicia. She crumbles the copy of the forged Rider and looks at Dana as if she'd like to kill her. I can't imagine her giving Dana what she wants.
Few tv shows are this intricately plotted or have such a fascinating and realistic take on power dynamics.
Oh..violence meter? 0
There is no violence in this episode. None.
There were three interloping stories. All three focus in one way or another on Kalinda's dilemma and how she will resolve it. Kalinda is attempting to help Will Gardner deflect charges of bribery being brought against him by the State's Attorney. I'm not sure Will has told Kalinda everything. If so, I've missed it. Or they just didn't show it. What he hasn't told is that Scott-Carr is after Peter Florek. The Question is why is he hasn't revealed this? At any rate, Scott-Carr has requested that Dana foster a relationship with Kalinda and coerce Kalinda to reveal damaging intel on Will Gardner. Scott-Carr's hand has been pushed by Tosciana, who has down a superlative job
of getting under Scott-Carr's skin and throwing a monkey-wrench in her plans. So she gets a bit underhanded and asks Dana to push Kalinda - which Dana does by providing Kalinda with an ultimatum - either reveal what you've found on Will or we'll use the rider that was provided to us by the Hunt's divorce attorney and prosecute Alicia on forgery charges. (Nice touch, but I questioned it because they managed to prove it wasn't a forgery last week - so how are they able to prove it is one this week? It also made me wonder if Carey knows what Scott-Car and Dana are doing, I'm guessing not.) This poses a dilemma for Kalinda. What does she do?
The episode addresses this dilemma.
* Bitcoin for Dummies - Stack (portrayed by Jason Biggs), an attorney and decoder specialist, pops into Alicia's office requesting legal representation against the US Treasury Office. (The US Treasury as villains is not only innovative, but in some cases more apropos...they represent bureaucratic power at its best.) What ensues is an elaborate game played against both the US Treasury and Lockhart/Gardner - Stack can't reveal who the designer of Bitcoin is, because the federal offense is developing an alternative currency. It is not however a federal offense to represent the developer. The Treasury is pursuing Mr. Stack to get him to admit who his client is, which he states he can't do under attorney client privilege. Of course if he is his own client, that privilege becomes waived. Kalinda sets off to figure out who Bitcoin is...and at one point almost gets arrested herself, because the developer ghosts her computer, making it appear she did the coding. That's when she begins to piece it together. At the end...she discusses her findings with Stack.
Kalinda: "You decided to do a round-robin on the treasury. All of three of you developed Bit-Coin. You came up with the idea, Elaine came up with the Manifesto, and Nanko with the code. The treasury would go after each one of you individually, but it never occurred to them that you did it together. That Mr. Bitcoin was three people not one."
In short, he put them and Kalinda on a wild goose chase.
* Alicia's Son...who is dating Neesa. Alicia disapproves of the relationship, because she fears it will become sexual soon and too serious. Grandmom Florek disapproves for other reasons. Both express their disapproval. Making it difficult for the son to figure out where to meet his girlfriend, do it at Dad's - run into Grandmom. Do it at Mom's...And of the two places, he'd clearly prefer Mom's. So he plays the two against each other. Grandmom agrees with his mother.
And says, well, then, your Mom's right. But Mom on the other hand...he finds her weakness,
racism or classism.
"Grandmom disapproved as well, but she said it was because we had nothing in common, we were too different, different worlds - I went to Capstone and Neesa went to public school."
"She said that?" (Pause) "You can have Neesa over as much as you want."
LOL!
* Tosciana asks Will if he has any vulnerabilities. He and Kalinda tell Tosciana that he does.
His friend and bookie, the actor, who he invited to his basketball games - paid off an 8,000 gambling debt. And there is one case - with Judge Parks, that may be considered circumspect. (I have a feeling we probably saw this case and it was either during the first or second seasons. The cases in this show are important. It's work-place drama. Makes me wish I owned the DVDs or rewatched these episodes.) Tosciana looks at the file and asks if there is anything in that file that she doesn't want to know about? Anything that could really really hurt them? Kalinda says yes. Tosciana leaves - "I'm going to go now." Kalinda looks at Will. Will tells her he can't ask her to do it. She takes the file.
Later, at the very end of the episode, after she resolved the Bitcoin case (she didn't tell anyone what she discovered outside of Stack), she hands Dana the file that we saw.
And I can't help but wonder if she tampered with it first. She has an odd look on her face after talking to Stack, an ah-hah moment. And after she gives Dana the file, she has a look that can either be described as "whew" or "she bought it" or "not sure about this."
But I see a twist coming. The stories were too well juxtaposed. Also, in the court case as in the bar scene - it's made clear that Kalinda cares most about Alicia. She crumbles the copy of the forged Rider and looks at Dana as if she'd like to kill her. I can't imagine her giving Dana what she wants.
Few tv shows are this intricately plotted or have such a fascinating and realistic take on power dynamics.
Oh..violence meter? 0
There is no violence in this episode. None.
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Date: 2012-01-17 03:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-17 11:08 pm (UTC)Excellent review.
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Date: 2012-01-18 03:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 09:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 05:54 pm (UTC)When Lockheart-Gardner proved the husband was having another new affair, the wife dropped her suit. So FMurray Abraham had no interest spending $30,000 to authenticate whether it was a forgery or not. He just gave it to the SA office as a parting gift for losing his fee on the potential $44M lawsuit.
It may very well be a forgery. I don't think Cary was there when Wendy Scott-Carr dropped that. He's safe since he made no absolute claim on provenance of the forgery - but WSC taking that shot at Alicia (not Will) would alert him to her case not being directed at Will, but probably Peter. (Having Alicia disbarred would hurt his ambition for higher office if he is claiming her as a political spouse...)
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Date: 2012-01-19 01:06 am (UTC)I know Alicia didn't know if it were a forgery or not. She couldn't be sure if David Lee slipped her the form unawares. She remembers signing the original, but can't find it. (Oh, ghod, I've been there, done that - too many times to count. So easy to lose stuff like that.
That's why I love electronic scanning - but that's not even reliable - that episode nailed it.)
And you're right - it's another attack against Peter, not Will, the real target.
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Date: 2012-01-16 07:57 pm (UTC)